It’s Friday, which means I’m going to attempt to clean out my TBR a little. This is week nine of Down The TBR Hole, which a meme hosted by yours truly here on Lost In A Story.
Most of you probably know this feeling, your Goodreads TBR pile keeps growing and growing and it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You keep adding, but you add more than you actually read. And then when you’re scrolling through your list, you realize that you have no idea what half the books are about and why you added them. Well that’s going to change!
It works like this:
- Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
- Order on ascending date added.
- Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
- Read the synopses of the books
- Decide: keep it or should it go?
The Books:
The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
No no no no not going to read this one! I’ve heard a lot about it, especially that it’s just a bunch of spoiled teens with drama, but then in the future.
The Judgement: GO
The Reader by Traci Chee
Mehh. No thanks. I added this because of a tag I did a while back. And the idea of a girl discovering the wonderful thing that is a book really attracted to me, but not anymore.
The Judgement: GO
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
This is the second book in the Grisha Trilogy! I loved the first. And I will definitely read this one.
The Judgement: KEEP
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
More Lara Jean, yes please!
The Judgement: KEEP
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
Even more Lara Jean, love it!
The Judgement: KEEP
Do you think I’ve made the right decisions? Have you read any of these books?
Lost In A Story 
Oo I like this idea! I might have to start doing this but I have another Friday tag I also want to do – so busy!
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Also, I’m a bit stupid. By ascending, do you mean the books we first added to our list or the most recent?
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I started with the first books I added, because if you start at the newest, you will probably not remove those, because you just added them. Also, some of the books I added first, I added years ago, so I barely remember why I added them.
There are no rules whatsoever on what day you’re supposed to do this, I do it on Fridays but you can do it any day you want 🙂
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My TBR pile is starting to feel like a glass mountain that can never be climbed but I still want to read them all.
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Ohh yes I know that feeling, every time you think you have it under control, it feels like the control slips away immediately. There are just too many books to read and too little time to read them!
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I was really anticipating The Reader, but after listening to the audiobook I was pretty disappointed. 😦
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That’s too bad, I’m happy I removed it then…
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I have The Thousandth Floor coming up in my TBR pile! I’m pretty excited, but from what I read there are some pretty weird things going on…
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I hope you like it then! I don’t think it’s for me, I love the idea of the tower but of what I’ve heard of it, it’s probably not something I’d enjoy.
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The Thousandth Floor is no my shelf since foever. And the Grisha Trilogy is awesome! I’m sure you’ll enjoy it just as much as I did 😉
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I hope so! I really need to continue the series!
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I have yet to read the last book, but it has to wait a little bot longer. Some other books on my TBR are first haha
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I haven’t read any of these except for P.S. I Still Love You, and I really enjoyed it, so thumbs up for that decision! 🙂
Also, I love the Down The TBR Hole series, it’s so much fun to read! (it also must be super helpful for the Beat the Backlist Challenge)
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I hope I like P.S. I Still Love You as much as I liked the first book! Thank you! Yeah it’s quite useful 🙂
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Too bad: I loved The Thousandth Floor! But we can’t read them all!
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True! I don’t think it would be something I’d enjoy, but I’m happy you did!
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Thank you…to each their own, for sure! 😊😊😊
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